Law Practice
Aug. 31, 2023
San Francisco DA committed ‘improper, but collateral’ misconduct, appeals court rules
DA Brooke Jenkins responded that the public should be more concerned that the defense is continuing to petition for murderer Daniel Gudino’s release from the psychiatric hospital than by any misconduct she might have committed.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Wednesday dismissed a 1st District Court of Appeal decision that found she committed prosecutorial misconduct during the 2021 murder trial when she was an assistant district attorney.
“The appellate court found it was a harmless error when I observed that it is not the defense counsel’s job to not seek justice or to tell the truth about what happened and that the defense’s obligation is to ...
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